Edward parker



(No Model.)

E. PARKER.

MACHINE FOR GREASING CARTRIDGES.

Patented Oct. 2, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

EDWARD PARKER, OF NET HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGN OR TO THE VIN CHESTER REPEATING ARMS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR GREASING CARTRIDGES.

srncrricn'rron'forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,059, dated october 2, less. l Application tiled August 6, 1893. (No model.) y

To all whom, 'llt may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD PARKER, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Im- 5 provement in Machines for Greasing Cartridges; an d I do hereby declare the following,

. when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings coni5 Fig. 4, a vertical section through one of the tubes, enlarged.

This invention relates to an improvement in the machine for greasing cartridges for which Letters Patent of the United States were granted to Henry S. Burns, September 12, 1882, No.

264,237. The invention of Burns had for its object to mechanically apply the grease to a number of cartridges hanging in a plate, and avoid the individual handling, as in previous In the invention of Burns the cartri dges are suspended by their head, the bullet downward, and over a bath of lubricating materia-l in a heated state. A plate is immersed in the bath, which is perforated with holes corgo responding substantially t-o the shape of but slightly larger than the body of the bullet. As the bullets hang over the bath, they are in axial line with the perforations in the plate which lies in the bath. Then the plate is raised from the bath up into the plane of the bullets, and

so that the bullets enter the respective holes in the plate. The lubricating material adheres to the surface of the holes, and is'transferred to the bullet by Contact as the plate'is thus pre- 40 sented. The thickness of the plate is less than the length of the exposed portion of the bullet, and so that the points will extend through the plates without contact, the intention of such extension of the bullets through the plate being to avoid greasing the extremity of the bullet; but in practice it is found that sometimes the holes will take up a greater quantity of grease than is necessary to deposit upon the bullet, or than the bullet will readily retain.

This is due at times to the formation of bubbles in the bottom of the holes, which serve to support a considerable quantity in the hole, and so that the entire surface of the bullet will be greased, and such quantity presented to the bullet is liable to run down upon t-he surface The general construction is substantially the same as that in the Burns patent.

A represents the pan, in size corresponding to the work to be done, and in which a quantity of grease or lubricating material is held in a liquid condition by heat or otherwise, as indicated in Fig. 3. Vithin this pan a plate, B, is arranged in a horizontal plane, and so as to move freely up and down on vertical guides C. The mechanism for thus moving the plate here shown consists of a rocksh aft, I), arranged longitudinally through the pan, with a handlever, E, upon the outside, and provided with arms F, which extend into connection with the said plate, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3, whereby a rocking movement imparted to the shaft D will correspondingly raise the plate from or lower it into the pan, as indicated in Fig. 3. The plate B is perforated, as seen in Figs. land 2, the shape of the perforations corresponding to that portion of the bullet upon which the grease is desired to be placed, but slightly larger in diameter. s

H is a thin metal plate perforated corresponding to the perforations in the plate B, and arranged to be set upon the pan, as shown, and so that the perforations in the plate II will register or stand concentric with those in the plate below.

i I is a plate arranged in a stationary position in the bath beneath the plate B, and upon this plate Vertical tubes a are arranged concentric Vhen the cartridges are arranged in thel plates, the points of the bullets stand in their respective tubes a. Then the plate Bis raised above the surface of the grease, taking upon the surface of the holes the grease to deposit upon the bullet, as in the\Burns machine; but because of the tubes a, which stand within the holes, there is no possibility of the formationIl of bubbles, or of taking up any more grease than can lie in the holes around the tube. rlhe grease thus taken is deposited upon the bullet, and then the plate B returned. The tubes c protect the end of the bullet and prevent the pos sible depositing of grease thereon, or its running down upon the bullet as the plate descends, as it is liable to do in the Burns niaehine. The grease will chill sufficiently upon the bullet before it can be removed, so that there is no liability of its flowing below the point indicated by the upper end ofthe tubes.

Another advantage of this arrangement of' tubes is that the cartridges arebrought into an exact perpendicular position-that is, axial line with the tubes-thus insuring an equal deposit upon all sides and preventing the pos- 3 5 sibility of the cartridges getting out of such proper axial line. I employ tubes to thus cover the end of the bullet; but I Wish it to be understood that by the term tube7 I intend to embrace any cover for the end of the bullets 4o standing in an aXialline with the cartridge and with the holes in the greaScrplate.

I claim- The, combination of a pan constructed te contain the lubricating material in a liquid 45 state, a plate arranged in said pan in a horizontal plane upon guides, and so as to be immersed in or raised from the lubricating 1naterial, the said plate perforated corresponding to the portion of the cartridge to be lubri- 5o cated, a plate arranged over said movable plate, correspondingly perforated, through the perforations of which the cartridges to be lubricated may be suspended above the lubrieating material, and tubes a, concentric with 5 5 the cartridges, and so as to cover the point of the bullet before the lubricating material is presented, substantially' as described.

ED\VARD PARKER.

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DANIEL H. VEA nnn, Lina II. DANmLs. 

